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Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
Franklin Roosevelt was asking for over twice as much as the U.S. national income in 1933. World War II's cumulative cost to the U.S. by 1945 would be $397 billion -a third of a trillion. The public debt would soar to $258 billion-ten times the highest debt of the 1920s. The interest alone would be $5 billion a year-bigger than any pre-New Deal peacetime budget. The President, in his twelve years as Chief Executive, was spending three times as much as all 30 of his predecessors put together...
Most jockeys are slaves to scales. As riders soar towards the 110 Ib. danger line, out come sweatboxes and rubber suits for roadwork under a broiling sun. Some live on black coffee, cigarets and an occasional graham cracker. At 27, tall by jockey heights (5 ft. 2¼ in.), Ted Atkinson needs none of these. His average weight (stripped...
...abnormal psychology to Miriam Hopkins and portrays a novelist who never gets around to marrying. She writes well but unprofitably. Her friend (Miriam Hopkins) is a mental charlotte russe who, out of subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years...
Mixing old & new material, mingling old & new Russia, Chauve-Souris of 1943 moseys along agreeably, but never gets anywhere. It lacks everything exciting: the tune that can make a show, the performer that can stop one, the pace that can keep one spinning, the verve that can make one soar. As master of ceremonies, Producer Greanin has almost as heavy an accent as Balieff had, but he has not nearly so .light a touch...